Adolescence. Voume. 1 : Its psychology and its relations to physiology, anthropology, sociology, sex, crime, religion, and education / G. Stanley Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, G. Stanley, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adolescence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (589 pages)

Other Title:

Adolescence

Place of Publication:

New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1904.

Summary:

"Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. The qualities of body and soul that now emerge are far newer. The child comes from and harks back to a remoter past; the adolescent is neo-atavistic, and in him the later acquisitions of the race slowly become prepotent. Development is less gradual and more saltatory, suggestive of some ancient period of storm and stress when old moorings were broken and a higher level attained. The annual rate of growth in height, weight, and strength is increased and often doubled, and even more. Important functions previously non-existent arise. Growth of parts and organs loses its former proportions, some permanently and some for a season. Some of these are still growing in old age and others are soon arrested and atrophy. The old moduli of dimensions become obsolete and old harmonies are broken. The range of individual differences and average errors in all physical measurements and all psychic tests increases. This book discusses adolescent development"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

Growth in height and weight

Growth of parts and organs during adolescence

Growth of motor power and function

Diseases of body and mind

Juvenile faults, immoralities, and crimes

Sexual development : its dangers and hygiene in boys

Periodicity

Adolescence in literature, biography, and history.

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